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W. E. PENN & GL-S. BROWN. COMBINED OHURN AND BUTTER WORKER.

No. 583,862. I Patented June 1,, 1897.

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W. E. PENN 8:0. S. BROWN. COMBINED GHURNAND BUTTER WORKER.

No. 583,862. Patented June 1,1897.

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W. E. PENN & 0. 3. BROWN. COMBINED GHURN AND BUTTER WORKER.

N0.'583,"862. Patented June 1,1897.

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W. E. PENN 8t 0. S. BROWN.

COMBINED OHURN AND BUTTER WORKER.

No. 588,862, Patented June 1,189'7.'-

Mam/am QM gg- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

XVILLIAM E. PENN AND CHARLES S. BROWN, OF LAKE MILLS, WVISOONSIN,ASSIGNORS TO THE F. B. FARGO (it COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

COMBINED CHURN AND BUTTER- WORKER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 583,862, dated June 1,1897.

Application filed October 20, 1896. Serial No. 609,464. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, WILLIAM E. PENN and CHARLES S. BROWN, of LakeMills, in the county of Jefferson and State of Wisconsin, have inventeda new and useful Improvement in a Combined Churn and Butter-\Vorker, ofWhich the following is a description, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, which are a part of this specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in a class of machines which areadapted both for churning and for working butter, parts of the mechanismbeing shifted and operated in changed relations for working butter fromthe relations they had when used for churning.

The object of the invention is to simplify and improve upon theconstructions heretofore in use, thus adapting the machine for wider,more convenient, and efiicient use.

The invention consists of the machine and its parts and combinations ofparts, as hereinafter described and claimed, or their equivalents.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of the completemachine. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the front end of the machine. Fig. 3is a plan View of a fragment of the drum at its front end and of themechanism in front of the drum. Fig. 4 is an elevation of the rear endof the machine. Fig. 5 is a transverse section on line 5 5 of Fig. 1.Figs. 6 and 7 are details. Fig. 8 is a central transverse section of thedrum and rolls therein with a butter-catching tray supported on thecross-heads. Fig. 9 is a longitudinal elevation of the tray in twosections and of a bar on which it is supported.

In the drawings, Ais the frame, which is of suitable form and size forthe support of the operative mechanism. A cylindrical drum 10, tight atboth ends, is provided at each end with an annular or hollow arbor orgudgeon 11, fixed on the head of the drum, which gudgeons have theirbearings revolubly in suitable boxes or bearings 12 12 therefor, thegudgeons being provided with annular grooves or channels in which thebearings of the boxes are received, which prevents endwise movement ofthe drum on the frame. The gudgeon-bearings 12 are secured to the frame.The drum is provided at its front being provided with aloose drivingband-pulley 16 thereon. The drum is also provided on its periphery witha door-aperture normally closed by the lid or door 17. The interior ofthe drum is provided with longitudinal dashboards or buckets 18, securedto the shell of the drum throughout its length at little distance apart.

Within the drum there are longitudinallydisposed rolls 19 19, preferablycorrugated or fluted, substantially parallel with the axis of the drumand located near the inner edges of the buckets 18, which rolls at theirends are mounted revolubly in the cross-heads 2O 20, the cross-headsbeing respectively provided with arbors 21 21, which arbors extendthrough the heads of the drum and are journaled in boxes therefor on theframe. Glands 22 22 about the arbors 21 21 are secured to the heads ofthe drum and therewith form stuffing-boxes, which, being suitablypaoked, form liquid-tight joints between the arbors and the heads of thedrum. The arbors 21 21 are respectively provided with sprocket-wheels 2323, which are geared by means of sprocket-chains 24 24 to pinions on thecounter-shaft 25, which counter-shaft is journaled in suitable bearingstherefor on the frame. The sprocket-gears are of the same size, so as todrive the arbors 21 21 concurrently and synchronously from thecountershaft 25, thus revolving the rolls 19 about their common axis bypower applied therefor at both extremities. The shaft 25 is geared tothe driving-shaft 15 by means of a sprocketchain 26, running on asprocket-pinion on the shaft 25 and on a sprocket-wheel 27, loose on theshaft 15, but adapted to be clutched thereto by means of theclutch-collar 28, splined on the shaft 15. A lever-handle 29, pivotedmedially on a bracket on the frame, is furcate at its lower extremityand rides in a channel therefor in the clutch-collar 28, the upperextremity of the lever-handle being provided with a spring-actuatedcatch 30, which takes into a segmental rack-bar 31 and locks thelever-handle,holding the clutch-collar 28 in or out of engagement withthe sprocket'wheel 27. The lever-handle 29 is also provided with afinger 29, that rides in an annular channel therefor in the hub of astop-block 32, splined on the arbor 21,, the handle 29 being adaptedalso to shift and lock the block 32. A clutch-collar 3i, splined on thedriving-shaft 15, is adapted to be put in engagement with the hub of thedrivingpulley 1.6 and hold the shaft to rotation with the pulley.Alever-handle 35, pivoted medially in a bracket on the frame, is furcateat its lower extremity and rides in an annular groove therefor in theclutch-collar 34, and is adapted for shifting the collar into and out ofengagement with the hub of the pulley 16.

WVhen this machine is put into use as a butter-worker, the arbors 21 21are connected actively through the counter-shaft 25 with the drivingshaft 15 in the manner illustrated in Fig. 1, and both the drum and therolls are revolved continuously, but in opposite direetions. By thisaction the butter is caught and pressed between the rolls l9 and thebuckets 18 or the shell of the drum, and the milk is thereby forced outof it. WVhen the butter has been sufficiently worked, the rolls 19 canby the partial revolution of the arms 20 be brought into a horizontalplane common with the arbors 21 and be locked in position by shiftingthe block 32 along the arbor 21, bringing the faced portions 32 of theblock into engagement with a correspondingly-faced portion of thebracket 33, form ing a part of the frame, and thereupon a tray(preferably in sections B B) can be introduced into the drum and allowedto rest on removable bars C C, supported on the crossheads 20, intowhich tray the butter will fall from the buckets 18 as the drum isrevolved. The shifting of the block 32 into engagement with the bracket33 releases the clutch 28 from the wheel 27.

When the machine is to be used as a churn, the block 32 is shifted onthe arbor 21 so that the faces 32 are brought into engagement withcorrespondingly-faced portions or members 36, constructed on andpreferably integral with'the gudgeon 11. This situation of the partslocks the cross-heads 20 and rolls 19 in position relative to the drum,and when the drum is revolved the rolls revolve or whirl aroundsynchronously therewith. Should it at any time be desirable to shift thedrum or the rolls therein relative to each other, the block 32 can be soshifted on the arbor 21 that the faced portions 32 will be opposite thespace between the gudgeon 11 and the bracket 33, in which position ofthe parts the shifting of the drum or of the rolls with reference toeach other can be readily accomplished by the attendant.

\Vhat we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is

1. The combination with a cylindrical drum provided withlongitudinally-disposed buckets on the inner surface, annular gudgeonson its ends and means for supporting and rotating the drum, of aplurality of longitudinally-disposed butteravorking rolls mounted onradially-extending arms within the drum, the rolls being on differentsides of the axis of the drum and at a distance therefrom and from eachother and severally near the buckets, arbors secured to and carrying thearms and proj eeting through the heads of the drum and supported inindependent bearings, and means for rotating the arms and the rollstherewith.

The combination with a cylindrical drum provided withlongitudinally-disposed buckets on the inner surface, annular gudgeonson its ends, and means for supporting and rotating the drum, of aplurality of longitudinally disposed butter working rolls mounted onradially-extending arms within the drum, the rolls being on differentsides of the axis of the drum and at a distance therefrom and from eachother and severally near the buckets, arbors secured to and carrying thearms, said arbors projecting through the heads of the drum and beingsupported in independent bearings, releasable means for rotating thearms and the rolls therewith, and means for locking the arms in positionagainst revolution when the revolving means are released.

3. The combination with a revoluble cylindrical drum having longitudinalbuckets on its inner surface, of a plurality of butterworking rollsmounted on radial arms in the drum, said rolls being disposed parallelwith the axis of the drum but on different sides of said axis and at adistance therefrom and from each other and near the buckets, arborsfixed to said arms and extending axially through the heads of the drumand having their hearings on the frame independently of thedrum-bearings, and means for rotating the arms and the rolls therewithindependently of and in the reverse direction from the rotation of thedrum.

4:. The combination with a revoluble cylindrical drum havinglongitudinal buckets on its inner surface, of a plurality ofbutterworking rolls mounted on radial arms in the drum, said rolls beingdisposed parallel with the axis of the drum but on diiferent sides ofand at a distance from its axis and from each other and severally nearthe buckets, arbors fixed to said arms and extending axially through theheads of the drum and having their bearings on the frame independentlyof the drum bearings, releasable means connected at both ends of thedrum for rotating the arms and rolls therewith independently of and inthe reverse direction from the rotation of the drum, and means forlocking the arms against revolution simultaneously with the releasing ofthe means for revolving the arms.

5. The combination with a revoluble cylindrical drum and a driving-shaftgeared to and rotatin g the drum, of rolls on radial arms IIO in thedrum, arbors fixed to the arms proj eeting axially through the heads ofthe drum and journaled independently of the drum, a counter-shaft drivenfrom the driving'shaft, releasable means for driving the arbors from thecounter-shaft, a stop-block splined on one of the arbors, and means forshifting the stopblook into engagement with a fixed bearing whereby theradial arms and rolls are held against revolving in the drum.

6. The combination with a drum mounted and revoluble on a frame andmeans for r0- tating it, of rolls in the drum mounted on cross-headshaving arbors extending through the heads of the drum concentrictherewith, said arbors being journaled on the frame, a block splined onone of said arbors, a fixed bearing, and means for shifting the block onthe arbor into engagement with the fixed bearing or with the drum.

In testimony whereof We affix our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

WVILLIAM E. PENN. CHARLES S. BROVN.

Witnesses:

A. W. GREENWOOD, O. F. GREENWOOD.

